Kidnappers of Egyptian diplomat threaten to kill him

Kidnappers of Egypt’s top diplomat in Iraq threatened to kill him because today on an al-Qaida-linked website.

Al Qaida’s religious court decided to hand over Ihab al-Sherif to its fighters “to carry out the punishment of apostasy against him,” said the statement on the site associated with al-Qaida in Iraq. Under Islam, apostasy, or changing religion, is punishable by death.